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Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
tmpfs_load="YES"
If the system becomes low on memory and swap is configured (see swapon(8) ), the system can transfer file data to swap space, freeing memory for other needs. Metadata, including the directory content, is never swapped out by the current implementation. Keep this in mind when planning the mount limits, especially when expecting to place many small files on a tmpfs mount.
When mmap(2) is used on a file from a tmpfs mount, the swap VM object managing the file pages is used to implement mapping and avoid double-copying of the file data. This quirk causes process inspection tools, like procstat(1), to report anonymous memory mappings instead of file mappings.
gid | Specifies the group ID of the root inode of the file system. Defaults to the mount point's GID. |
uid | Specifies the user ID of the root inode of the file system. Defaults to the mount point's UID. |
mode | Specifies the mode (in octal notation) of the root inode of the file system. Defaults to the mount point's mode. |
nonc | Do not use namecache to resolve names to files for the created mount. This saves memory, but currently might impair scalability for highly used mounts on large machines. |
inodes | Specifies the maximum number of nodes available to the file system. If not specified, the file system chooses a reasonable maximum based on the file system size, which can be limited with the size option. |
size | Specifies the total file system size in bytes, unless suffixed with one of k, m, g, t, or p, which denote byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte and petabyte respectively. If zero (the default) or a value larger than SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE is given, the available amount of memory (including main memory and swap space) will be used. |
maxfilesize | Specifies the maximum file size in bytes. Defaults to the maximum possible value. |
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp
Configure a tmpfs mount via fstab(5):
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
Rohit Jalan and others ported it from NetBSD to FreeBSD .
This manual page was written by Xin LI <Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org>.
TMPFS (5) | July 21, 2022 |
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